Police say the teenager plans to preach to his devotees for a short time every day for a week, and then plans to return to the jungle to meditate.

Bomjan has been nicknamed "Buddha Boy" by the local media. He first started drawing crowds in 2005, when his followers said he meditated for months without food, water or sleep. Tens of thousands of people flocked to see him sitting cross-legged beneath a tree.

He left the meditation site in March of 2006, complaining about noisy crowds. He reappeared in a different location in December of that year and meditated there until March, when he vanished into the jungle again.

Many of the boy's followers believe he is the reincarnation of Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher who founded the Buddhist religion some 25-hundred years ago. Modern Buddhist religious leaders say they have not reached a conclusion about Bomjan because they have not been able to properly investigate him.